Aleutian

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Of or relating to the Aleut, their language, or their culture.

n. A native or inhabitant of the Aleutian Islands, especially an Aleut.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Of, from, or pertaining to the Aleutian Islands (a group of islands in the northern Pacific Ocean, west of Alaska), or to its inhabitants, their culture, or their language.

n. A native or inhabitant of the Aleutian Islands.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Of or pertaining to a chain of islands between Alaska and Kamtchatka; also, designating these islands.

n. a member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Appellative of or pertaining to a group of islands (the Aleutian islands) separating Bering sea from the northern Pacific, nearly or quite coextensive with the Catherine archipelago, extending from near the southern point of Kamtchatka to the peninsula of Alaska.

Etymologies

Examples

A United Nations forecast of the possible movement of the radioactive plume coming from crippled Japanese reactors shows it churning across the Pacific, and touching the Aleutian Islands on Thursday before hitting Southern California late Friday.

Overfishing led to declines of sea lions, the preferred food of killer whales, and they began eating sea otters, whose populations in Alaska's Aleutian Islands declined 90% from the late 1980s to 2005, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Scientists have debated the issue going back at least to 1906, when an 8.0-magnitude temblor hit the Aleutian Islands in the northern Pacific, and just 30 minutes later, a 8.0-magnitude quake struck Chile.

Radiation from the damaged nuclear reactors in Japan could reach the Aleutian Islands later today and California tomorrow, according to a simulated model from the United Nations reported on by the New York Times.